Today my fellow microbudget filmmakers, it's time to learn everything you need to know about a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). It's quick, easy, and exactly what you need right now when you need or want to share information with someone, and you don't want that someone to blurt out the information to someone else.

Because I'm going to reference these sites a few times, let's just call them the Ole Boys for now.

With public domain tunes, you can drag them through the mud, remix 'em, fail to credit the original author, and do just about anything short of claiming them as your own or anything shady like that.

Public domain tunes are the least restrictive.

The next tier up would be the attribution and sharealike tunes. Any combo of these guys are okay for most microbudget filmmakers, so long as you credit the original author and DO NOT claim them as your own. That should always be a given.

If it's on YouTube, I'll include a text description in the bottom, below the video player:

"ThisMusicTrack" by Uncle Bob: http://unclebobsmusic.com

If you have titles at the end of your flicker show, add a credit to the author and a place to find it.

And because we are in the people business (you and me), here's the extra mile I want you to walk: contact the author and let them know.

What?!?

Yes, it's good for relationship-building, and you need that more than you need another nofilmschool.com article, another piece of gear, or yet another lighting tutorial on YouTube.

Oh, and you can find an assortment of these guys (for free) on the aforementioned Ole Boys.

Now I love anything that allows commercial use because that allows you to use your tunes in a variety of ways. While the Ole Boys have some tunes that fall into this category, finding any that are good is like asking to find Big Foot, a unicorn, Nessie, and Jimmy Hoffa all in the same day.

Do you know another site with Creative Commons tunes? Comment below to benefit our shared community of microbudget filmmakers.

I want to encourage others and bring honor to the Almighty in everything that I do with film and video. My goal is to take the first 11 minutes of my tv pilot and seek out decision-makers who can further the conversation about developing it into a show. If my team and I can do that, then we can teach 100,000 other microbudget filmmakers how to do the same thing so that we might tell stories of hope to millions. In the meantime, I'm a son of the King, a family man, a lifelong student of film, and the author of two microbudget filmmaking books.